“Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change.
Encompassing urban design, planning philosophy and political policy, Calthorpe, an architect based in Berkeley, California, presents this discussion of urban planning as an integrated solution to emer
Most Americans today do not live in discrete cities and towns, but rather in an aggregation of cities and suburbs that forms one basic economic, multi-cultural, environmental and civic entity. These “
